Oriental Fougeres

While I can fathom or think I understand their categorisation with respect to scents like Joop, Le Male, Casual Friday etc, of the scents I know among those listed, a few of them have me puzzled as they don't smell at all like orientals to me.

Re: Oriental Fougeres

Hi Renato. It's funny, I'd never noticed that category before. I will write this hoping that this post stays on topic and friendly...I've always thought of our old friend Kouros and its little brother Kouros Fraicheur as Oriental Fougeres, or Fougerey Orientals (fougientals?), and in fact just yesterday entered a review for Fraicheur where I commented on this. I had never heard any "real" fragrance industry folks use that classification. Would you put Kouros in that category? Are there any other scents you think would fit?

Re: Oriental Fougeres

Originally Posted by robyogi

Hi Renato. It's funny, I'd never noticed that category before. I will write this hoping that this post stays on topic and friendly...I've always thought of our old friend Kouros and its little brother Kouros Fraicheur as Oriental Fougeres, or Fougerey Orientals (fougientals?), and in fact just yesterday entered a review for Fraicheur where I commented on this. I had never heard any "real" fragrance industry folks use that classification. Would you put Kouros in that category? Are there any other scents you think would fit?

Thanks for your thoughts.

The H&R Charts have Kouros as a Woody Fougere right next to the column for Ambery Fougeres, which in turn includes such scents as Sculpture, Xeryus Rouge and Salvador Dali. The latter three are also categorised as Oriental Fougeres at OsMoz.

Whenever I've smelled a scent that I was instantly intoxicated or intrigued by, I'd check it's H&R Chart classification, and it would be in the Ambery Fougere column. So to my nose, it is an obviously very distinct classification that shouldn't be thrown into the "Fresh Oriental" or "Oriental Fougere" categories as is often the case.

So while I wouldn't categorise Kouros as any sort of oriental, I'd definitely think it has something in common style wise with Salvador Dali, Sculpture and the like - which might explain why you think of Kouros as similar to Oriental Fougere scents.
Renato

Re: Oriental Fougeres

Thanks for the thoughts/info guys. When I was thinking of Kouros having an oriental quality, I was thinking of the incense, amber, honey, and oft-noted civet, which I tend to think of as "oriental" notes. But, maybe my definition of oriental fragrances is not quite correct. Regardless, sounds like it straddles categories.